Works in progress

Presentation of works in progress within the framework of the residencies of the Dancehouse Lefkosia.

Between lines - Galatia Savva

I was never a black and white person - not as a woman, not as a dancer and not as a choreographer. I have always liked to live, dance and create between the delicate lines of colours and rules. This piece is a celebration of the unsteady ground of contemporary and neoclassical dance. We dance outside of color, category and lines, directly influenced by the music and isolation of the body.

Choreography and concept: Galatia Savva. The dancers solos were choreographed in collaboration with each dancer.
Music: Daniel Yang, Max Richter, Olafur Arnalds, Luca Sticagnoli, Stamatis Spanoudakis, The Swell Season
Costumes: Galatia Savva
Dancers: Viki Kalla, Georgia Pelengari, Polina Petrou, Galatia Savva

Bach in the mirror - Nefeli Tsiouti

Bach's music is perhaps the closest that human art has ever come to representing the divine, not only as regards beauty but also in its high sense of organisation and rigor of structure. And what better manifestation of the divine in humans than our ability to create, our constant striving for higher goals and personal improvement.

Choreographing Bach's music, one must face philosophical as well as practical and aesthetic problems. Are the movements to reflect the music, illustrate the density of the discourse, or are they on the contrary to use it as a backdrop, an abounding base in which to plant roots and leap towards new directions?

Should one endeavour to create a moving image of Bach's music, a response to the resulting harmony, or simply use the process of polyphony as an inspiration for creating an altogether new way of visualizing the works in question?

It is these and many more matters that Nefeli Tsiouti's choreography probes and attempts to clarify.

Dancer/Choreographer: Nefeli Tsiouti
Annini Tsiouti, piano
Nikita Zozovskyi, drums
Angelos Georgiou, sound engineer

Music: Johann Sebastian Bach

F-AM-I-LY - Konstantina Skalionta

Four performers compose a ‘family’ inspired by personal experiences and confessions, aiming to detect and represent patterns of behaviour that occur within the Cypriot family environment. F-AM-I-LY aims to explore the different roles and relationships within families and how each of us experiences ‘family’ in diverse ways.

Concept: Konstantina Skalionta
Choreography: Konstantina Skalionta in collaboration with performers
Performance: Polina Ioannou, Lyda Karayiannni, Raphaella Loizou, Konstantina Skalionta

Tell me where it is - Alessandro Schiattarella

The first dance solo of Alessandro Schiattarella is based on personal experience of limits; being a professional dancer in international established dance companies and being affected by a rare neuromuscular disease, which slowly has atrophied the muscles in his hands. This fact leaded him to explore the topic of “different normalities”: disability, not seen as limits but as expansions of possibilities for dance and society.

The ’mutation’ started more or less at the same time of his career, changing his body and challenging his identity; making him believe that in some cases "a limit" is somehow self-created and can be transformed into a new possibility. Trying to find answers he will probably encounter new questions, which will perhaps help him to find the freedom from his selfmade limitations.
Since dealing with experiences of limits is a common factor to all human beings, he would like to share this perception with the audience.

Alessandro Schiattarella: choreographer, dancer, video and sound editor
Yasemin Yilmaz: production management

Ich bins...its me... - Nicolas Georgiou

The project deals with the discovery, acceptance, and at the end the disposal of a second personality in the same person, which arises through an intense emotional shock. As the process of the play is unfolding, the individual is required to discard one of the two personalities and take a final decision on how he/she wants to proceed in life.

"... Alice discovers, feels and knows, she feels what she discovers... She exists and she knows you exist, she feels like you feel... You coexist... She feels and she wants self-realization.
Friend or foe? Together or apart? She is divided and fights Afterwards she attacks, she is angry and defensive. She is afraid, she leaves and you leave. She gives up or she defeats. She is free Are you free? Acception or rejection?..."

Choreography/ Creation / Conception: Nicolas Georgiou
Dramaturgy: Constantina Zoumpouli
Performers: Vania Paschalidi, Nicolas Georgiou
Music: Hans Zimmer, David Darling, Manolis Androulidakis